A Feeding Bear
August Gaul (Groß-Auheim bei Hanau 1869 - Berlin 1921)
Lot-No. 856
Meissen, designed 1922, made after 1973. Böttger stoneware. Model no. '86192', sign. 'A. Gaul'. Crossed swords mark (2 incised lines). H. 9,5 cm. - Animal sculptor and graphic artist, studied first at the drawing academy in Hanau and later at the academy in Berlin, was a master pupil of Reinhold Begas and one of the founding members of the Berlin Secession, member of the Deutscher Werkbund, professor in 1908, most important German animal sculptor of his time. Lit.: Josephine Gabler Das Werkverzeichnis der Skulpturen, 2007;
August Gaul: A Feeding Bear
August Gaul (Groß-Auheim bei Hanau 1869 - Berlin 1921)
A Feeding Bear
Lot-No. 856
Meissen, designed 1922, made after 1973. Böttger stoneware. Model no. '86192', sign. 'A. Gaul'. Crossed swords mark (2 incised lines). H. 9,5 cm. - Animal sculptor and graphic artist, studied first at the drawing academy in Hanau and later at the academy in Berlin, was a master pupil of Reinhold Begas and one of the founding members of the Berlin Secession, member of the Deutscher Werkbund, professor in 1908, most important German animal sculptor of his time. Lit.: Josephine Gabler Das Werkverzeichnis der Skulpturen, 2007;
